Thakali and Baragaon villages (including Lubra), horse races at Muktinath. The Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf Film Archive is housed at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London where Fürer-Haimendorf was Professor. The 16mm cine footage was digitised by Digital Himalaya Project staff http://www.digitalhimalaya.org.

Marc Petit is a collector of primitive arts for more than 30 years, this catalogue, in which was edited a wide selection of his masks collection, played in the mid of the 90’s a pivotal role to make known the primal arts of the people of Himalaya to a large number of tribal arts lovers.

The book was awarded with the Grand Prix du Livre des Arts of the Société des Gens de Lettres.

Marc Petit donated in 2003 25 Nepalese masks of his collection to the Musée du Quai Branly of Paris; five of these items are already exhibited in the permanent collections of the Museum in the Asian section.

Several of his masks will be showcased in the exhibition: IN THE WHITE OF THE EYES, HIMALAYAN MASKS / DANS LE BLANC DES YEUX, MASQUES HIMALAYA , which will be held at the Museum du Quay Branly from 9 November 2010 to 30 January 2011.

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MASKS OF HIMALAYAS

A PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW

MASK

(Inventory no 13)

MASK

(Inventory no 63)

MASK

(Inventory no 87)

MASK

(Inventory no 66)

MASK

(Inventory no 15)

MASK

(Inventory no 47)

Himalayan Primitive mask

MASK

(Inventory no 68)

Old Himalayan Mask with horns, around 50 cm, Western Himalaya HP area?

-The SOAS is a leader in the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the library with its Archives and Special Collections is the HEFCE-designated National Research Library for these regions of the world.

SOAS is in the process of putting his collections of rare manuscripts, books, photographs, audio and film material on-line, to be freely available for everyone.

THE FIRST COLLECTION PUT ON THE WEB IS THE ARCHIVE OF PROFESSOR CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF.

This collection is widely recognised as the world’s most comprehensive visual documentation of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas.

The SOAS archive of Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) includes photographs, cine film and written materials.

It reflects his fifty years of scholarship.

It is especially valuable because it documents these cultures before many changed rapidly with the advent of external civil administration after the mid-twentieth century.

In 1995, Nicholas Haimendorf donated his father’s archive to SOAS, where it was deposited in the Special Collections department of the Library.

Kagbeni is a fortified two gates medioeval village located in a strategic place at the cofluence of two river valleys, situated in a fertile area.

During the 19th century the human guards of the gates become superfluous and were replaced with two human figure moulded from clay each named KHENIS or Ghost Eaters, primitive iconographic subjects probably remanants of the ancient BON religion.

IS A 2003 EXHIBITION AT MUSEE INTERNATIONAL DU CARNAVAL ET DU MASQUE of BINCHE,devoted to the Art of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Népal, Bouthan, Tibet, Mongolie, with items from the Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque (M.I.C.M.), and the Etnografisch Museum of Antwerpen. Nepalese pieces from the Collection of Eric Chazot (Paris).